Heny

History

Heny is one of the buildings from the wave that made Rua Haddock Loboi high-rise in its most residential stretch, when the block was still trading houses for narrow towers with wide floor slabs. Market records place the delivery in 1970; the condominium has held its own company registration (CNPJ) since May 1985, and the municipal aerial survey already records the tower standing, at 34.5 m in height. The project’s authorship, the development and the construction company are not documented in any reliable public source and, therefore, are not attributed here.

• Trivia: the plot is one of those colonial-era lots that Haddock Lobo inherited from the original subdivision — about 13.5 m of frontage for more than 40 m of depth, 616 m² in total. It is a narrow, long slice, and the entire building is the answer to it: a slim tower, deep floor plans, a penthouse at the top. Immediate neighbours repeat almost the same layout — the lots at 1447 and 1459 have 609 and 639 m² — which gives the block a rhythm of slender towers, one beside the other, unusual in the Jardins.

Architecture and aesthetics

A single tower on a narrow plot. The municipal survey measures 34.5 m in height, and the layout is typical of its era: the body of the building occupies the usable width of the plot and grows in depth, leaving a rear setback instead of a side one. The architectural authorship is not publicly documented and is not attributed here. What the building delivers, and what is rare in this bracket, is the combination of a wide floor plan with two parking spaces per unit — on a block in the Jardinsi where most of the stock from the same decade came with only one. At the top, the 325 m² penthouse doubles the size of the standard unit.

Aesthetics and scarcity

Technical specifications

• Towers and units: single tower.
• Sizes: 157 m² for the standard floor plan, with 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The records in circulation show units from 157 to 325 m², the largest of them at the top.
• Parking: 2 in the standard floor plan.
• Structural highlights: narrow, deep plot of 616 m², with about 13.5 m of frontage onto Rua Haddock Lobo and more than 40 m of depth; measured height of 34.5 m; two parking spaces per unit in the standard floor plan.
• Registry and parameters: single tower · plot of 616 m² · frontage of about 13.5 m · depth of about 43 m · measured height 34.5 m · 3 bedrooms · 3 bathrooms · 2 parking spaces · private areas from 157 m² to 325 m² · registry jurisdiction 13th São Paulo Property Registryi · zoning ZC (Law 16.402/2016).

Location and surroundings

Points of interest · distances in metres

Cerqueira César: the address

Rua Haddock Loboi is the spine of the Jardinsi: it starts commercial next to Avenida Paulistai and becomes increasingly residential as it runs downhill. Number 1435 is already on the quiet side — the block closes between Rua Oscar Freirei, Alameda Lorenai and Rua Augustai, and the neighbours are mid-sized residential towers from the 1960s and 1970s, one right next to the other, all on narrow plots from the same subdivision. On foot, one reaches the shop windows of Rua Oscar Freirei, the street market on Haddock Lobo itself and the shops on Rua Augustai; the metro at Oscar Freire Stationi serves the block, and by car Avenida Rebouçasi, Avenida Nove de Julhoi and Avenida Paulistai are just minutes away. It is an address that has been established for more than half a century, with no land left over to reinvent it.